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A totally serious herpetological podcastTue, 25 Dec 2018 00:12:27 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3Comment on SquaMates Ep. 7: The Frog Awakens by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/279#comment-62
Tue, 25 Dec 2018 00:12:27 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=279#comment-62Gabriel’s mention of the (fringe) theory that amniotes were originally viviparous reminded me of a paper that argues that squamates were originally viviparous (which might be just as fringe? I don’t know, but it’s sure interesting.) It was discussed in episode 34 of Herp Highlights.

]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 7: The Frog Awakens by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/279#comment-61
Mon, 24 Dec 2018 18:54:50 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=279#comment-61Gabriel mentioned tegus. I for one know almost nothing about tegus, and would appreciate a discussion on tegus.
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 7: The Frog Awakens by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/279#comment-60
Mon, 24 Dec 2018 18:52:51 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=279#comment-60Ethan’s mention of giraffes is a good reminder that while giraffes have proportionately long necks relative to *living* tetrapods, they’re not so long-necked when compared to fossil weirdos.

Related: it’s also a reminder that while nearly all living mammals (with a few exceptions like sloths) have the same number of neck vertebrae (7), number of neck vertebrae in most non-mammalian tetrapods is highly variable, as Gabriel pointed out. A trait that’s highly conserved in one group may not be conserved at all in another. (viviparity vs oviparity would be another example.)

]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 5: The Pythons Strike Back by SquaMatesThemselveshttp://squamatespod.com/archives/232#comment-57
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:23:31 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=232#comment-57Got it, fixed, thanks Kristin!
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 5: The Pythons Strike Back by Kristin Baileyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/232#comment-56
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:36:07 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=232#comment-56Helen’s twitter address needs an update, it should be @SssnakeySci but the link only has 2 S instead of 3. 🙂 Luckily I was able to search for her and follow her.
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 6: Return of the ‘Anoli’ by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/247#comment-54
Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:13:37 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=247#comment-54the talk about different systems of units reminded me this tragic accident, caused by software that reported USA customary units, pound-force seconds, when its specified requirements called for use of SI units, Newton seconds.

]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 6: Return of the ‘Anoli’ by Elan Zucchettihttp://squamatespod.com/archives/247#comment-53
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 01:38:27 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=247#comment-53Hey guys. First of all I wanted to tell yoju that the podcast is great, it’s the only one i’m currently addicted to! Found it via Gabriel’s twitter. Then I would like to ask Mark, you said you don’t trust the Amphibian Species of the world, why is that? And should I trust the Reptle-database.
Thanks guys and keep up the great work
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 5: The Pythons Strike Back by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/232#comment-42
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 02:37:47 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=232#comment-42Also, I appreciated Helen’s participation in the show. I sure hope she enjoys Logan – I spent parts of my childhood there, and it’s sure a beautiful area. Hopefully the winter inversions don’t get too bad.
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 5: The Pythons Strike Back by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/232#comment-41
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 01:22:33 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=232#comment-41Thank you for spending time on my questions about rubber boas and calls.

]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 3: Revenge of the Toxicofera by Crown Househttp://squamatespod.com/archives/185#comment-22
Fri, 05 Oct 2018 21:03:16 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=185#comment-22Hi, thats a great cotspad you are running! Somehow it reminds me of some other internet-thing I ran into, but can’t put my finger on it at the moment.
Seriously: Thank you for #HERpers, thats great work you are doing; today it was especially touching. The information in combination with the way you handled it impressed me deeply.
Best wishes from Vienna, and keep up the good work!
C. H.
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 4: A Newt Hope by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/196#comment-19
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:18:10 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=196#comment-19epic fail? I thought you did answer my question?
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 3: Revenge of the Toxicofera by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/185#comment-16
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:50:56 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=185#comment-16thank you! episodes on fossorial herps would certainly be appreciated, especially amphisbaenians.
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 1: The Fishopod Menace by SquaMatesThemselveshttp://squamatespod.com/archives/108#comment-15
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 10:30:30 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=108#comment-15Great question. We’ll cover this in episode 4!
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 1: The Fishopod Menace by SquaMatesThemselveshttp://squamatespod.com/archives/108#comment-14
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 10:29:51 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=108#comment-14A+, five stars
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 3: Revenge of the Toxicofera by SquaMatesThemselveshttp://squamatespod.com/archives/185#comment-13
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 10:28:43 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=185#comment-13An interesting suggestion for sure! Obviously, rafting together is vanishingly unlikely, but it does point toward the possibility of currents or other phenomena favouring simultaneous translocations.

We hope to make a few episodes about strictly burrowing animals at some point!

]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 3: Revenge of the Toxicofera by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/185#comment-8
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 02:53:39 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=185#comment-8I meant to add – of course being rafted from Africa to S. America would require loxocema to later disappear from S. America (or just haven’t been found), after Central America gets connected to S. America, and they spread to Central America.

But I don’t really think it was the “same raft” anyway, that’s a joke. But it seems to me fossorial snakes have high rafting potential (because that’s what happened to worm lizards)

]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 3: Revenge of the Toxicofera by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/185#comment-7
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 01:22:43 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=185#comment-7related to that, when you do your promised episode worm lizards, don’t forget to cover their fascinating rafting-driven biogeography!
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 3: Revenge of the Toxicofera by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/185#comment-6
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 01:03:53 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=185#comment-6maybe loxocema crossed the south atlantic on the same eocene raft that brought new world primates and cavimorph rodents. According to timetree.org, the median separation time from pythons is about 44 mya, which is in the right ballpark. : )
]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 1: The Fishopod Menace by llewellyhttp://squamatespod.com/archives/108#comment-3
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 21:22:35 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=108#comment-3I was listening to episode 1 for about the (n^2)th time, and I realized I wasn’t entirely clear on the distinction between a call, and other noises an animal might make.

For example, in episode 1, Gabriel says “… geckos are the only squamates that actually call …” This is about 79% of the way through, right after Ethan mentions that gecko and tokay are onomatopoeia.

I thought of the noises king cobras make during threat display, and I thought, what, exactly, is meant by a call?

]]>Comment on SquaMates Ep. 1: The Fishopod Menace by Graham Peter Kinghttp://squamatespod.com/archives/108#comment-2
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:23:39 +0000http://squamatespod.com/?p=108#comment-2So these Fishopods.. first they squam, then they squampered? Then some descendants squlambered up into the trees, and a few later took to the squavannah, eventually developing a squivilization..
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